Roger--I used to feel that way most every day--I am a burden on my family--too old to do anything but drink beer and watch TV. I might as well die. They have worked very hard to improve my view on life--I am a para--they wanted to get me into the State vocational rehab program and my attitude was what, learn a new profession at 64? Old dogs and new tricks, right? Well I am currently learning to be a computer architect and am being trained on the auto cad system to draw house plans. I love it! I seem to be a natural at it and am able to turn out a full set of drawings (8 pages) in about a week. I still have much to learn but it just goes to show that even when you think you are a drag on society you may yet find a way to be a useful contributor.
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 10:14 AM, Roger & Terese Pratt < r.c.pr...@frontier.com> wrote: > This is how I feel some times as an invalid (or is that invalid as in not > valid). I know it is wrong, but if Nietzshe said it, it must have been > thought many times before. Just having a bad day, I'll be more up tomorrow. > > "The invalid is a parasite on society. In a certain state it is indecent to > go on living. To vegetate on in cowardly dependence on physicians and > medicaments after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost > ought to entail the profound contempt of society." > -Friedrich Nietzsche > > - Roger in Kennewick, WA > >
